Arbeitspapier

Mobile and more productive? Firm-level evidence on the productivity effects of mobile internet use at the early stage of diffusion

Mobile internet access allows for flexibility with respect to working time and working place. We analyse whether employees' use of mobile internet access improves firms' labour productivity. Our data set comprises 2460 German firms and refers to the year 2010, when mobile internet started its diffusion process to firms on a large scale. The econometric analysis shows that firms' labour productivity significantly increases with the share of employees with mobile internet access. However, an instrumental variable approach reveals that mobile internet use does not cause higher labour productivity.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 13-118

Classification
Wirtschaft
Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: General
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Subject
Mobile Internet
Labour Productivity
Firm-Level Data

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bertschek, Irene
Niebel, Thomas
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2013

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-353952
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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bertschek, Irene
  • Niebel, Thomas
  • Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)

Time of origin

  • 2013

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